California Government Code ARTICLE 2 - Powers of a Local Agency

• Section 54340.
  A local agency may acquire any enterprise by gift, purchase, or eminent domain.(Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 81.)
• Section 54341.
  A local agency may construct or improve any enterprise wholly or partially within or wholly without the local agency. By gift, lease, purchase, eminent domain,...
• Section 54342.
  A local agency may operate, maintain, repair, or manage all or any part of any enterprise, including the leasing for commercial purposes of surplus space...
• Section 54343.
  The local agency may adopt reasonable rules or regulations for the conduct of the enterprise.(Added by Stats. 1955, Ch. 602.)
• Section 54344.
  A local agency may prescribe, revise, and collect charges for the services, facilities, or water furnished by the enterprise.(Amended by Stats. 1953, Ch. 526.)
• Section 54345.
  The local agency may provide that charges for any sewer enterprise or service shall be collected together with and not separately from the charges for...
• Section 54346.
  (a) If all or part of the bill is not paid, the local agency may discontinue any and all service for which the bill is rendered.(b) Commencing...
• Section 54346.1.
  The local agency may enter into a written contract with a privately owned public utility rendering other than gas or electric service, that the charges...
• Section 54346.2.
  If all or any part of the bill of any privately owned public utility on which any sewer enterprise or service charge is collected is...
• Section 54346.3.
  The local agency may enter into a written contract with any person, firm or public or private corporation providing for the billing and collection by...
• Section 54346.4.
  (a) A local agency whose jurisdiction is geographically coextensive with the county in which it operates, acquires, constructs, or improves a system, plan, works, facilities, or...
• Section 54347.
  The local agency may provide for the collection of charges. Provisions may be made for, but are not limited to:(a) The granting of discounts for prompt...
• Section 54348.
  The local agency may provide for a basic penalty for nonpayment of the charges within the time and in the manner prescribed by it. Said...
• Section 54349.
  The local agency may issue bonds for funds to acquire, construct, improve or finance an enterprise. The bonds may be secured pursuant to this chapter.(Amended...
• Section 54350.
  A local agency has police power over any enterprise acquired, constructed, or improved pursuant to this chapter and may make and enforce all necessary regulations...
• Section 54351.
  If the local agency acquires, constructs, or improves a sanitation or garbage removal or disposal system, it may require its inhabitants to use the facilities...
• Section 54352.
  If the local agency acquires, constructs, or improves a sewer system pursuant to this chapter, it may declare that the further maintenance or use of...
• Section 54353.
  As a remedy established for the collection of due and unpaid deposits and charges and the penalties thereon an action may be brought in the...
• Section 54354.
  A local agency that acquires, constructs, or improves a system, plant, works, facilities or undertaking for the collection, treatment, or disposal of sewage or for...
• Section 54354.5.
  A resolution or ordinance prescribing or revising charges for the services or facilities furnished by the enterprise and declaring that delinquent charges and penalties when...
• Section 54355.
  The lien provided by Section 54354 shall attach when the treasurer or other officer whose duty it is to collect the charge records a list...
• Section 54356.
  As a separate, distinct and cumulative remedy established for the collection of said charges and penalties thereon an action may be brought in the name...
• Section 54357.
  Remedies for collecting and enforcing rates and charges set out in this chapter are cumulative and may be pursued alternately, or any thereof may be...
• Section 54358.
  The local agency may execute all instruments, perform all acts, and do all things necesssary or convenient in the exercise of the powers granted by...

Last modified: October 22, 2018